I'm not going to get mired in 12 months' worth of how Trump and the SCOTUS will "flip the 2026 midterms."

[Miles Archer]

Here's what I understand.

1). Trump is a cornered fucking rat.
2). Trump's had one form of mental illness or another for his entire life, but now...at age 79, the same age at which Fred Trump found himself in the grip of dementia...he's more unstable than he's ever been, and therefore, more unpredictable.
3). Roberts, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett are going to have a "GO AHEAD...TRY AND FUCKING STOP US" attitude until there are enough Democrats in Congress to fucking stop them.
4). Trump and the Republicans are keenly aware that if enough Democrats get Congressional seats, the Trump "agenda" slows to a crawl and it's "HELLO, THIRD TRUMP IMPEACHMENT."

In the last 48 hours, I've seen every doomsday scenario about how Trump, MAGAt Moses Mikey, the SCOTUS are all going to work together to flip the midterms if Dems win.

I lived through "Bush v Gore." As Lou Reed sang, "THOSE WERE DIFFERENT TIMES."

I know that if the people named above made their move, there would be some Americans who would just roll over and go "oh well."

Then there are the Americans who WOULD NOT.

And I'm putting my smart money on that second group, and I will not live in fear and anxiety and hand-wringing over what Trump and his boot-licking ass-kissing toadies "might do" a year from now.

I hope everyone reading this feels the same.

[boonecreek]

1. Agreed.

I can't get wrapped up in a pile of speculation. My blood pressure couldn't handle it.

[Lovie777]

2. Domesday stories are already surfacing especially from RW rags NYT, WPo, et al..................

same will be parroted by corporate media 24/7.

Keep the eyes on the prize. Understanding that the 6 RW US SC justices were installed not to secure USA's democracy and protect it's citizens, the costly installment was for the RW oligarchs for fascism disguising itself as Christians.

[ananda]

3. I agree. Ignore the trolls.

GOTV

[MarineCombatEngineer]

4. Agreed.

There's enough anger in the country that if Flim Flam Man and his toadies tried that, the civil unrest in this country would make the Vietnam War and the No Kings protests seem a like a walk in the park.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. I think the way the SC 6 will try and influence the election is uneven verdicts on gerrymanders

They've allowed the Texas one, outrageously (since it was explicitly race-based); they'll allow any other pro-Republican one. They may now try and prevent the California one, plus other pro-Democrat ones, using whatever bullshit they think they can get away with.

[Timeflyer]

6. Agree. Resist and raise hell (peacefully).

[yaesu]

7. We already had enough fing Dems in Congress to stop them in the past

But there's always a few paid off pretend Dems to get in the way. Don't underestimate the greed factor, plus fascist state voter suppression and the general mass stupidity of the American voter after more and more rw networks brainwash them 24/7. tRumps been suffering from this ot that for years but the orange zombie keeps ticking not to mention foreign influence by our enemies but the fascists friends.

[rampartd]

8. what i know is that ORGANIZED gun owners belong to right wing militias

which have been recruiting, arming, and training for generations.

i understand a desire to get froggy, but we need to win, decisively but nonviolently. and we need to organize our own militias